Times Cryptic #26793

2017-08-02

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Across

1a

Evergreen song in opera about gold carriage (9)

6a

Guardian contends Egypt's leader must go (5)

9a

Margins lost, Estonian capital's drained (3,2)

10a

Havana boxer one good to punch body (5,4)

11a

Sailor interrupts murder at home (7)

12a

Inconsistent statement to plague Oxford official (7)

13a

Pop star in jail can shock 'em anyway (7,7)

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17a

Rise of Muse in Proust, as Mann, excited us (5,9)

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21a

Virtuoso, without piano, left band's backing (7)

23a

Russian tool used in nineteenth-century work (7)

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25a

Cunning people in relevant rooms (9)

26a

Returned books are an inspiration (5)

27a

English monarch beheaded calculating Swiss (5)

28a

Discovered suddenly day after purser is battered (9)

Down

1d

Answer found in song that lifts a curse (8)

2d

German newspaper article drawn up without preparation (2-3)

3d

Force rips off part of dress (9)

4d

Statement genuine about City dumping yen (7)

5d

Subject's Gable posed by artist (7)

6d

So-called cruellest month sees couple in trouble (5)

7d

Family members taking place in impressive ship (9)

8d

Soil emptied out on boundary put off batsman (6)

14d

End phone conversation in squeak? (5,4)

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15d

Beast in Blake? Or Baal at Heart Reformed? (5,4)

16d

Daisy with instinctive drive to orbit round minor planet (8)

18d

Sea god puts pressure on fat men after capsize (7)

19d

French King having way with Queen in revel (7)

20d

Demon drink for Spike (6)

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22d

Train from Waterloo, maybe, heading north to save time (5)

24d

Warms some quiche at Savoy (5)

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